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Old 09-03-2013, 10:18 PM   #1
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Thrillers! Action! Adventure! Name your favorite authors!
More suggestions for a new-to-ebooks reader, please. YA is OK too.

Who are your favorites for these genre?
Of course there is:
Lee Child
Robert Parker
James Rollins
Clive Cussler
Blake Crouch
Steve Berry
Brad Thor
Douglas Preston
... to name just a few. Please add your favorites. Thanks

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Old 09-03-2013, 10:20 PM   #2
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Old 09-04-2013, 02:55 AM   #3
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Mainly, but not only, thriller writers:

John le Carré
Umberto Eco
Raymond Khoury
Margaret Atwood
Fredrick Forsyth
Robert Ludlum
Ken Follett
Desmond Bagley
Alistair MacLean
Jonathan Maberry
Tom Clancy
Hammond Innes
Jack Higgins
Wilbur Smith
Larry Bond
Len Deighton
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Old 09-04-2013, 01:45 PM   #5
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One from the old days:
John Whitlatch. He wrote 11 books before dying from a brain tumor in 1981.
The covers were lurid, but the books were great. I have them all in paper, but will probably never see them published as ebooks.
http://mysteryfile.com/Whitlatch.html
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Old 09-04-2013, 03:40 PM   #6
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard. Books like "King Solomon's Mines" and "She" are the equal of any modern thriller. Haggard pretty much invented the "Lost World" genre of adventure stories. You'll find all 60-odd of his novels here at MR in a 15-volume set of omnibus editions.
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Old 09-04-2013, 04:29 PM   #7
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Jeffrey Deaver, Tana French, and John Hart are contemporary thriller (or mystery) writers not on your list.
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Michael Connelly
John Grisham

Already mentioned but a couple of my favourites:
Lee Child
Dean Koontz
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The writers I probably follow the most are:

Clive Cussler
Jim Butcher
Hugh Howey
Larry Correia

They're the only ones that I have their website as favorites and visit regularly to keep up with their stuff.
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One from the old days:
John Whitlatch. He wrote 11 books before dying from a brain tumor in 1981.
The covers were lurid, but the books were great. I have them all in paper, but will probably never see them published as ebooks.
http://mysteryfile.com/Whitlatch.html
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Love the covers. Sadly, nothing at the Ottawa library. I must keep a look-out in the used book bins.
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Old 09-06-2013, 02:32 PM   #11
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Love the covers. Sadly, nothing at the Ottawa library. I must keep a look-out in the used book bins.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...hitlatch&sts=t
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Old 09-07-2013, 05:29 AM   #12
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I feel so mainstream. All of my favorite thriller writers have been listed!
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Along with some of the others already mentioned, some of my favorites are:

Alex Kava
Greg Iles
Harlan Coben
Stephen White
Stuart Woods
David Baldacci
Lis Wiehl
Allison Brennan
Christopher Reich
Randy Wayne White
Andrew Gross
John Gilstrap
John Lutz
Tami Hoag
C.J. Box
Ted Bell
Catherine Coulter
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Robert K. Tanenbaum
Rex Stout
Lawrence Sanders
Andrew Vachss
A. J. Quinnell
Charlie Huston
Fred Vargus
S. J. Rozan
Kate Atkinson
Benjamin Black
Kinky Friedman
Walter Mosley
Lawrence Block
Philip R. Craig
Margaret Maron
Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir
Jack Higgins
F. Paul Wilson
Donald E. Westlake

Guess I should stop now
I like most authors mentioned above as well. TRied not to repeat any but probably I have,

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I forgot Jonathan Kellerman (and his wife Faye)

Don't think he was previously mentioned.
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